Interleukin-6 release is higher across arm than leg muscles during whole-body exercise

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 590-598

  Helge, Jørn W ^a   Klein, Ditte K ^b   Andersen, Thor Munch ^a,b   van Hall, Gerrit ^b   Calbet, Jose ^b,c   Boushel, Robert ^a   Saltin, Bengt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; GLYCOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN MUSCLE LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE EXERCISE; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 79956034308     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2010.056424     Document Type: Article

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